Be inspired by Isa Fremeaux and Jay from the collective Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination. Discover how their work moves between performance and pedagogy, protest and poetry.

Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination brings together artists and activists to imagine and carry out creative, direct actions that are both joyful and politically effective. Their work revolves around the combination of resistance and imagination and protest and proposals, as two halves of the same DNA.

Whether it’s training or organizing actions: everything happens in a horizontal, equal way. They call their projects ‘experiments’, because they are open to the unknown. What they do know for sure: in the era of ‘the Capitalocene’, art is no longer meant to show the world, but to change it together.

Exploring and pushing boundaries

Since its founding in a squat in London, the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination has been committed to exploring and pushing boundaries. They are known for their unconventional and radical actions: from massive bicycle demonstrations during the UN climate summit in Copenhagen, to recruiting a rebellious clown army during a tour of the United Kingdom. They built an illegal lighthouse on the site of an airport control tower, organised a raft regatta to block a coal-fired power station, and refused to have their work censored by the Tate Modern museum.

Since 2004, the collective has consciously moved in the tension between art and activism – always balancing on the tightrope of imagination and resistance.

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